It's one of the more annoying aspects of growing up, but it's undeniable: at some point, you are forced to admit that many old saws turn out to be true. I almost gagged the first time a stranger said to me, as I walked with my 5-day-old firstborn, "The days are long, but the years are short!" And what do you know, a blink of an eye later, that kid is starting school. Wise Crone Stranger was totally right! Weird!

Speaking of aging quickly, how about going from 0-years-old to 100 in 150 seconds? This video is not only the most uplifting way ever to learn to count to 100 in Dutch, but also a beautiful portrait of time. Filmmaker Jeroen Wolf asked people on the streets of Amsterdam to look into the camera and say their ages. The result is a fascinating compendium of faces, of the different ways people show their age, as well as the different attitudes they have toward their age. Just watch the range of emotions with which these people say their ages: happy, resigned, proud, reluctant. (According the filmmaker, it took him nearly a year to complete the project, and the hardest person to find was the 99 year-old.)

'100' (from 0 to 100 years in 150 seconds) from Filmersblog on Vimeo.

If someone were to ask you right now, how would you say your age? With an impish grin? With a mournful sigh? Tell us in the comments!

(via Gizmodo.)

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Men! What are they thinking? We can't always answer that, but we'll be posting our favorite glimpses into their world in this space every Thursday.

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* This photo album of grooms seeing their brides for the first time will make you reach for the tissues. (imgur)

* Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Baldwin: just two comedians in a car getting coffee. (Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee)

* Alan Turing, the codebreaker and father of modern computing, will get a posthumous 100th birthday gift: A special edition of Monopoly, a game he loved, honoring him. (CNet)

* “I’d say the majority of players are siding with me, that all people have a right to live and love and be happy. That’s really amazing. I’m very happy to see the tides changing in the positive.”—Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo on how other NFL players are joining him in his support of marriage equality. (NYTimes)

Photo: Philip Friedman/Studio D

"I was 12 when they let me into the grown-up section of the public library and I discovered James Bond. Live and Let Die, by Ian Fleming, was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to me. When I started to write, my ambition was to give my readers the same kind of thrill."

Winter of the World (Dutton), book two in ken Follett's Century Trilogy, has just been published.

This may be the more advanced version of color blocking, but it's easy to pull off: Pair graphic pieces with a solid item that matches the darkest color in the print. You want to ground the look with rich fall shades, not summer brights. 

Clockwise from top: Jaclyn Smith, $25, kmart.com. Kate Spade New York, $288, katespade.com. Lafayette 148 New York, $498, lafayette148ny.com.

I saw tons of styles with tiny faces at the Basel watch fair this year. They're a delicate alternative to the oversize boyfriend watch, and perfect for layering with bracelets. 

From top: Miami Beach by Glam Rock, $195, nordstrom.com. Burberry, $750, burberry.com. Hermès, $2,150, hermes.com for stores. DKNY, $195, macys.com. Coach, $398, coach.com for stores. Citizen Watch Company of America, $325, amazon.com.

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Here's something I just invented: the How-You-Check-Out-A-New-Book-Personality-Test. For incredible insights into your truest self, please answer the following question:

When picking up a book for the first time, do you first:
1) Read the back cover?
2) Read the first sentence?
3) Examine the author's photo?
4) Flip through and read sentences at random, as you will with ten other books standing there in the book store/library/your living room until your feet fall asleep and you've completely forgotten who or where you are?

For me, it's #4. (By the way, if you answered #4, according to my proprietary How-You-Check-Out-A-New-Book-Personality-Test (TM), you are a most serious and brilliant reader.) Of course I read for a gripping story and unforgettable characters and all the things that we wallow in novels for, but there is also a special joy in sentences, in bits and bobs, and even in the connections between seemingly unconnected books.

Which is why I love The Infinite Book, a text made up of other texts. What story is created when bits of other stories are jangled together like a pocketful of change? The result is surprisingly coherent, or anyway it can be. Bedtime stories are read, become nightmarish, blend into fact, meld into poetry. It's a lovely way to find a new book to read (clicking on each line gives you more information about the from which book it's been plucked) -- and a lovely way to think about reading. Reading as collecting, reading as an art form all its own.

Check out the Infinite Book, from Bkclb.

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Evelyn Lozada, estranged wife of NFL star Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, confronts her pain, fear, and heartbreak with the help of life coach Iyanla Vanzant in two-part series premiere of Iyanla: Fix My Life. Then see how Evelyn moves forward on the full episode this Saturday, September 15 and Sunday, September 16 at 10/9c on OWN.